Lloyd Blankfein famous quotes

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#Ambition #Voice #Strive

You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#Mean #People #Boss

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#Ambition #Successful #Too Much

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#America #Long #Corporations

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#Beach #Children #Matter

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.
-- Lloyd Blankfein

#Kind #Financial #Crisis

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.